LAGOS: The Nigeria Communication Commission, NCC axed two illegal mobile phone dealer-companies in the country last weekend, Kexinda Nigeria Limited and G-TJde Nideria Limited in their bid to fight against undue interference on network. The two companies their head offices in Otigba market Ikeja completely shut down and sealed up by NCC for selling unapproved [...]
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LAGOS: The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Dr Eugene Juwah has called for the revival of the fixed line segment of the telecommunications market in order for the country to reap the potentials of broadband deployment for wealth creation and employment generation. Speaking at the just concluded Mobile World Congress in [...]
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LAGOS: Mr. Tomisin Fashina an expert in Information Technology disclosed recently at the official launch of Yookos, a new micro blogging social media in Nigeria that the nation needs about 116 million citizens presence on the World Wide Web to bridge the current digital gap which lies between the country and the world. He revealed [...]
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LAGOS: After series of failed efforts to sell off telecommunications company NITEL with its debts over the past 11years, the Federal Government has decided to liquidate it. NITEL and its mobile arm M-Tel would be sold through “guided liquidation” in view of the company’s huge liabilities, the Bureau of Public Enterprises said in a statement. [...]
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LAGOS: The Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority of Nigeria (NCAA), Harold Demuren has implored the Federal Government to provide modern technology in the country’s numerous airports due to passenger air traffic increase. Demuren stated that the only way this great country can compete in the aviation industry globally is if modern technologies are [...]
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LAGOS: ICT experts have called for the incorporation of ICT (Information and communications technology) from the design stage of homes. This issue was tackled at a one-day seminar organized by Hafol Resources Limited with the title, “Intelligent Building: ICT approach to connected real estate”. Some of the questions posed were, is it possible for the [...]
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LAGOS: The People’s Democratic Party has approached a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja for an order to compel the Nigerian Communications Commission(NCC) to revoke the license of the leading service provider, MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd In the suit filed by the Osun and Ekiti Chapters of the party and the former governor of Osun [...]
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LAGOS: According to a recent industry study carried out by Pyramid Research, London, there is heightened expectation that Nigeria’s highly competitive telecommunications market will expand by 5.9 per cent in between 2011 and 2016. The report entitled ‘Nigeria: New Ministry, Infrastructure Investments and ICT Policies Boost Market’ provides a precise profile of Nigeria’s telecom, media [...]
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LAGOS: Galaxy Backbone is collaborating with the Defense Headquarters to host an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) forum for the defense sector next week. This forum is set to hold on Thursday, March 15 the in the country’s capital Abuja. Mr. Gerald Ilukwe, the Managing Director, Galaxy Backbone disclosed the forum is a Stakeholders’ Awareness [...]
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LAGOS: A Nigeria spokesman for the Islamist militant group Boko Haram told Bikyamasr.com on Tuesday afternoon that the group has plans to begin kidnapping Christian women in a push to “liquidate” the religious group from the country. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the spokesman said that “we are going to put into action new efforts [...]
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LAGOS: Mr. Demola Aladekomo, the President of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) flagship of all Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals and organizations in the country said in a recent courtesy visit to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) that listing of shares of ICT companies would aid NSE’s quest in reforming the capital market and [...]
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LAGOS: The Ministry of Communication Technology has proposed to hold a Forum in Lagos to engage stakeholders in the Nigerian IT industry on the draft ICT policy which released last January by the ministry for inputs, comments and suggestions from stakeholders and the general public. A few weeks ago, the Ministry of Communication Technology met [...]
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LAGOS: Superflux Nigeria Limited has hosted a team of MBA students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, USA in order to advance the course of local content advancement through technology transfer in Nigeria. The in-country Global Entrepreneurship Lab provides high-impact, IT-driven consulting services to over 200 start-up and growing companies. This [...]
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LAGOS: A Nigerian priest has told Bikyamasr.com that “hate and violence will not win in Nigeria.” The priest, speaking on condition of anonymity, was responding to Islamic militant group Boko Haram’s statement on Sunday that a new “war” against Christians would see a boosting of violent attacks against the country Christian community. “If we look [...]
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LAGOS: A Nigerian spokesman for the Islamic militant group Boko Haram told Bikyamasr.com on Sunday that they are planning a “war” on Christians in the next few weeks. According to the spokesman, speaking via telephone from northern Nigeria, the group “will launch a number of attacks, coordinated and part of the plan to eradicate Christians [...]
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LAGOS: Nigeria’s Islamist militant group Boko Haram reportedly killed three of its own members late on Friday in the northeastern state of Maiduguri, police and military sources confirmed. The explosion in the Kaleri suburb of the northern city on Friday destroyed a house and dismembered the three Islamist sect members, Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed of [...]
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LAGOS: Nigeria’s Arik Air has suspended flights to Johannesburg after some 125 Nigerians were turned away from South Africa after health officials in the country refused their entry. The airline said that flights between Lagos and Johannesburg, both financial capitals of the countries, would not continue until South Africa responded to its passengers’ demands. “We [...]
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Dakar/Abuja (dpa) – Thousands of Nigerians traveled to south-eastern Nigeria on Friday for the burial of Biafran independence leader Chukwuemeka Ojukwu, Nigerian television reported. Ojukwu declared independence for the region of Biafra in 1967. The resulting civil war killed more than a million people, but many Nigerians still see Ojukwu as a legendary freedom fighter. [...]
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LAGOS: The President, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Paul Weimer, has called on the government and experts in the oil producing countries to invest heavily in new technologies. He emphasized on the need for a maverick approach to doing things in order to achieve speedy progress in the sector. Speaking at the Nigerian Association of [...]
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LAGOS: Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti state has declared the readiness of his administration to completely integrate Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Ekiti state. To this effect he has launched a new official website for the state. He said the new website will enhance accountability and transparency in governance. The newly launched website is [...]
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